I'm not sure any generation of console has used the best video hardware available, though. For at least the current generation and the one before it, there hav

I'm not sure any generation of console has used the best video hardware available, though. For at least the current generation and the one before it, there have been video cards which cost more than the console hardware at launch, and even this generation which is, by all measures, a damn long way behind PC hardware still looks good. Not as good as PC, but you could mistake them at a glance. I think there'll still be a big push as raw hardware performance on the PC keeps up with clever optimisation on consoles.